ROMEO AND JULIET. 19

“Twill give you a draught that will make you seem to be dead for
two days, and then when they take you to church it will be to bury you,
and not to marry you. They will put you in the vault thinking you are
dead, and before you wake up Romeo and I will be there to take care of
you. Will you do this, or are you afraid ?”

‘“*T will do it; talk not to me of fear!” said Juliet. And she went
home and told her father she would marry Paris. If she had spoken out
and told her father the truth . . . well, then this would have been a
different story.

Lord Capulet was very much pleased to get his own way, and set
about inviting his friends and getting the wedding feast ready. Every one
stayed up all night, for there was a great deal to do, and very little
time to do it in. Lord Capulet was anxious to get Juliet married,
because he saw she was very unhappy. Of course she was really fretting
about her husband Romeo, but her father thought she was grieving for
the death of her cousin Tybalt, and he thought marriage would give
her something else to
think about.

Early in the morn-
ing the nurse came to
call Juliet, and to dress
her for her wedding ; |
but she would not
wake, and at last the |

   
  

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help! my lady’s dead.
Oh, well-a-day that ever
IT was born!”

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